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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Abbreviations for Sources
Prologue
“Nature” Defined
Perspectivism versus Relativism
“Nature,” Knowledge, and Norms
Conscience
Questions for Reflection
Notes
Chapter 1 Sexual Morality in the Catholic Tradition
Historicity
Sexuality and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome
Sexuality and Sexual Ethics in the Catholic Tradition
Reading Sacred Scripture
Old Testament Teaching
New Testament Teaching
The Fathers of the Church
Augustine
The Penitentials
Scholastic Doctrine
The Modern Period
Von Hildebrand and Doms
Second Vatican Council
Papal Birth Control Commission
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Notes
Chapter 2 Unitive Sexual Morality
Conjugal Love and Sexual Intercourse
Multiple Dimensions of Human Sexuality
Chastity
Truly Human and Complementarity
Sexual Orientation Complementarity and Truly Human Sexual Acts: A Reconstructed Complementarity
Holistic Complementarity, Truly Human Sexual Acts, and Sexual Norms
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Notes
Chapter 3 Marital Morality
Modern Catholic Thought and Marital Morality
Marital Morality and Contraception
Contraception and Historical Contexts
A Renewed Principle of Human Sexuality and Contraception
Totality and the Conjugal Act
The Inseparability Principle Revisited
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Notes
Chapter 4 Cohabitation and the Process of Marrying
Cohabitation in the Contemporary West: What the Sciences Tell Us
The Meaning and Nature of Commitment
Betrothal and the Christian Tradition
Historical Considerations
Sociotheological Considerations
Complementarity and Nuptial Cohabitation
Marriage as Sacrament
Catechumenate for Marriage
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Notes
Chapter 5 Homosexuality
The Bible and Homosexuality
Homosexual Orientation and the Bible
Interpreting the Bible on Homosexuality
Magisterial Teaching on Homosexual Acts and Relationships
The Moral Sense of the Christian People and Homosexual Acts
The Morality of Homosexual Acts Reconsidered
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Notes
Chapter 6 Artificial Reproductive Technologies
Defining Artificial Reproductive Technologies
The CDF’s Instruction and ARTs
ARTs and Health Complications among Children
Family and Society: ARTs and the Common Good
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Notes
Epilogue
Intrachurch Dialogue
Extrachurch Dialogue
Questions for Reflection
Notes
Index
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